eParticipation-platform by the city of Lausanne. The city spends about 6 Miollion Euro for innovations for sports, traffic and sustainability. People can participate in online-forums and offline meetings.

Online-discussion about consumer rights in the EU, starting 29th September. The portal will be available for citizens and politicians in the regions of Baden-Wuerttemberg (Germany) and Valencia (Spain).

Gordon Browns Digital Communication team posts news on the microblogging tool Twitter. Subscribers to this channel got press feeds and short 140 characters updates.

In June 2008, Premier Gordon Brown answered a first sample of questions by the British citizens. Everybody could create a video and upload it to the video-platform YouTube. The only restriction was that the video had to be under 60 seconds lenght.

According to the authors, Lords of the Blog is an experimental project to encourage direct dialogue between web users across the world and Members of the House of Lords.